[RECOVERY] [13] [Moonstone] TeamWin Recovery Project For Xiaomi Poco X5

[Erwin Abs]

Introduction:

Team Win Recovery Project or TWRP for short, is a custom recovery built with ease of use and customization in mind. We started from the ground up by taking AOSP recovery and loading it with the standard recovery options, then added a lot of our own features. It's a fully touch driven user interface , no more volume rocker or power buttons to mash. The GUI is also fully XML driven and completely theme-able. You can change just about every aspect of the look and feel.

Key Features:

Touchscreen driven with real buttons and drag-to-scroll
XML-based GUI that allows full customization of the layout true theming!
Settings are saved to the sdcard and persist through reboots
Ability to choose which partitions to back up and which to restore
Ability to choose to compress backups now with pigz (multi-core processor support for faster compression times)
Onscreen keyboard
Easy selection of internal/external storage

In addition to the above new features, TWRP features a scripting engine that allows an app to send commands to the recovery for the recovery to perform during startup. We call this scripting engine OpenRecoveryScript. This engine will be put to use immediately in the GooManager app. GooManager will be able to install recoveries automatically for most supported devices. The app will also let you choose to install multiple zips from within Android, wipe, and run a backup.

We are looking for other talented developers, themers, and device maintainers if they are interested in helping with a free, open source project.

Source Code:
https://github.com/MiCode/Xiaomi_Kernel_OpenSource/tree/moonstone-s-oss

GitHub - https://github.com/TeamWin/android_bootable_recovery

Gerrit Instance - http://gerrit.twrp.me

Hello, this is TWRP, for Xiaomi Poco X5

Installation:
1. fastboot devices
2. fastboot boot twrp-3.7.0_13-0-moonstone.img
3. if you were using magisk, reflash it now

Source tree: github

Send me a beer: Paypal

Download Oficial: https://twrp.me/xiaomi/xiaomipocox5.html

Download Unofficial : https://sourceforge.net/projects/win-abs/files/moonstone/recovery/

 

[gmbhneo]

Is this for X5 only or also working on X5 PRO?

 

[Erwin Abs]

Is this for X5 only or also working on X5 PRO?

only X5, if you are willing to test it I can make it

 

[quasyl]

only X5, if you are willing to test it I can make it.

I have X5 pro (3 days left to unlock bootloader). If you need a tester I can propose myself if there are no big risks to seriously brick my phone

 

[ChromaCobble]

DevilNoobIN made a port for Poco X5 Pro recently, https://www.pling.com/p/1993245/

Enjoy!

 

[chrome99]

cool, wish XDA had a dedicated forum for moonstone

 

[quasyl]

DevilNoobIN made a port for Poco X5 Pro recently, https://www.pling.com/p/1993245/

Enjoy!

I installed it and test, It's a good recovery. I don't understand why a thread isn't dedicated to it.

 

[hadiceberg]

Shouldn't Poco X5 (non pro) have its own forum?
I was very close to installing it on my X5 Pro.

 

[Foramin]

I installed it and test, It's a good recovery. I don't understand why a thread isn't dedicated to it.

Can you please tell me which of the three recoveries you used and how you installed it? Actually I tried all of them and in all cases it failed to boot to the custom recovery (boot to system instead).

 

[Illuminatus_]

If you want a tester for x5 pro let me know.

 

[quasyl]

Can you please tell me which of the three recoveries you used and how you installed it? Actually I tried all of them and in all cases it failed to boot to the custom recovery (boot to system instead).

This one:

Recovery For Redwood

ORANGEFOX Recovery For Poco X5 Pro

www.pling.com

This recovery is specific for poco x5 pro.
It would be good to have a specific thread for Poco X5 pro (Redwood).
Be careful!
At that link you will find 3 files. The first and the second are for android 13, the third (orange fox) is for android 12.

 

[jychung93]

With the release of X5 5G (Moonstone) kernel source code, hopefully this device will get more love...

 

[hadiceberg]

This one:

Recovery For Redwood

ORANGEFOX Recovery For Poco X5 Pro

www.pling.com

This recovery is specific for poco x5 pro.
It would be good to have a specific thread for Poco X5 pro (Redwood).
Be careful!
At that link you will find 3 files. The first and the second are for android 13, the third (orange fox) is for android 12.

Do you know the method to flash these recoveries?

fastboot flash boot_ab image.file

or

fastboot boot image.file

and then patch ramdisk.

I tried the 2nd method and device doesn't boot to recovery. I was afraid to flash it directly using the 1st method, because X5 pro uses "Boot as Recovery (A/B)" and doesn't have a separate recovery partition.

 

[Snakeforhire]

I'm getting a "FAILED : 'error unknown remote command'" when I try to fastboot boot it. :/ (And yes : the device is indeed a moonstone X5)

Any advice, maybe ?

(I reinstalled the latest adb & QC drivers as well as the R34 platform tools straight from Google)

 

[Hans_Werner]

Do you know the method to flash these recoveries?

fastboot flash boot_ab image.file

or

fastboot boot image.file

and then patch ramdisk.

I tried the 2nd method and device doesn't boot to recovery. I was afraid to flash it directly using the 1st method, because X5 pro uses "Boot as Recovery (A/B)" and doesn't have a separate recovery partition.

Which one did you use? Tomorrow I want to flash the recovery but I never used a phone with recovery (A/B)
Did it worked without problems?

 

[hadiceberg]

Which one did you use? Tomorrow I want to flash the recovery but I never used a phone with recovery (A/B)
Did it worked without problems?

I haven't flashed it yet.
As I understand, my device doesn't have a recovery partition and the method to flash a custom one is to boot the phone using that recovery image and then patching the boot ramdisk.
But I couldn't boot using the image.

 

[Hans_Werner]

I haven't flashed it yet.
As I understand, my device doesn't have a recovery partition and the method to flash a custom one is to boot the phone using that recovery image and then patching the boot ramdisk.
But I couldn't boot using the image.

Thank you. I will see tomorrow if i can managed to flash recovery and flash current xiaomi.eu rom. Finger cross.

 

[hadiceberg]

Thank you. I will see tomorrow if i can managed to flash recovery and flash current xiaomi.eu rom. Finger cross.

I think you don't need to flash a custom recovery to install xiaomi.eu. Use fastboot method instead.

Installing with Fastboot: (ROM Type: Fastboot)

• Download Xiaomi.eu ROM zip file
• Extract the ROM zip to a new folder
• Power off your device
• Boot your device in Fastboot mode (Hold volume down + power buttons)
• Connect to PC via USB cable
• Run one of the installation scripts (according to your PC operating system):
  - first_install_with_data_format - with data wipe, if you're flashing Xiaomi.eu ROM for the first time or downgrading.
  - update_rom - without data wipe, if you're updating from an older Xiaomi.eu ROM.
• Done!

 

[Hans_Werner]

Thanks' for the Infos. But I want also to use Magisk / Root.

 

[hadiceberg]

Thanks' for the Infos. But I want also to use Magisk / Root.

I'm using magisk without custom recovery.
You can install magisk, then use it to patch a copy of your boot.img (extracted from xiaomi.eu zip file).
Then flash the patched boot.img in fastboot mode.