Did anyone successfully flash TWRP? I can get it to boot just fine but flashing will succeed and then throw me back to the bootloader. I guess only booting is recommended.
[RECOVERY][3.4.0-2][hotdog]Unofficial TWRP recovery for OnePlus 7T Pro Unified(Test)
- Thread starter mauronofrio
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I think you can do it with terminal emulator like i did on 5T (However Im not quite sure if it works as i dont need it).For EFS/boot.img backups
1. Download and install terminal emulator
2. Type :
su (grant access for app)
3. Type
dd if=/dev/block/sdf1 of=/sdcard/modemst1.bin bs=512
and
dd if=/dev/block/sdf2 of=/sdcard/modemst2.bin bs=512
I know. I meant I can't seem to flash it permanently as it won't boot. Only booting it via fastboot works fine. I just wanted to report this, I rarely use TWRP anyway and I even wrote the tutorial for the EFS backup here in the Guides section
Does MTP works with this recovery? Anyone tried transferring files in TWRP mode?
It only works if you copy files to /tmp/ and those files are gone after a rebootm
Waiting for your contribution to the source code
Some Chinese developers managed to get TWRP working within two days of OnePlus 8 pro being released. and a lot of functionality is working. Decrypting, back up, mtp etc. and the OnePlus 8 pro is definitely dynamic partition as well. So it's definitely possible. Perhaps we just need the right developers or eyeballs on it.
As i said a bit of times, the chinese twrp is made from a private source and his twrp.is violating TWRP license and it can't stay on XDA
I wouldn't trust a closed source TWRP. No matter the functionality. If let's say it destroys all your data after 10 boots, you're out of luck. If it installs some app without you knowing: out of luck.
I would rather trust this TWRP here it it were an unknown source as it can't decrypt /data. But I wouldn't trust any unknown TWRP anyway.
After doing some reading on the unofficial chinese recovery, he said the reason why 7T / Pro cannot decrypt data on OOS is because it uses different encryption (method?) than OP8 / Pro, but it does decrypt successfully on a custom ROM.
So I went ahead testes his statement and tried this recovery, from this very thread with a custom ROM installed (Paranoid Android) and it was able to decrypt data with no problems.
Mounting /system, product and vendor did not work, which is expected since its the super partition.
So most likely something lies the OOS than makes TWRP not working correctly (?)
Edit: apparently the Chinese recovery is able to flash, mount and backup, not on OOS though.
So I went ahead testes his statement and tried this recovery, from this very thread with a custom ROM installed (Paranoid Android) and it was able to decrypt data with no problems.
Mounting /system, product and vendor did not work, which is expected since its the super partition.
So most likely something lies the OOS than makes TWRP not working correctly (?)
Edit: apparently the Chinese recovery is able to flash, mount and backup, not on OOS though.
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I trust it just fine. I've been using it for a week. And it works perfectly. You can wait around for official, which may never come,and have your life become harder because of using crappy ADB.
people can snivel and complain that it's not official or it's breaking rules, but I'm going to be a naughty boy all day long if it makes my life infinitely easier.
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