[RECOVERY][3.4.0-2][hotdogb]Unofficial TWRP recovery for OnePlus 7T Unified (Tes)

[morphvale]

It's funny how they delayed the 7 series update, because of the 7T decription issue, so that they wouldn't have to release it before 7T.

I don't find it surprising, though, that they have not fixed the original issue, since most likely this would have had required a full data wipe, which in a real world isn't really something to do.

They should have had, hower, offered a way to get this working, like I remember they did something similar for 3/3T where after an update they changed data from ext4 to f2fs, but only if you wiped. So whoever wanted the change, could get it by wiping.

 

[rob420p]

I almost got my self banned on the oneplus community chat for going off over them not fixing deception

 

[a g bell]

I almost got my self banned on the oneplus community chat for going off over them not fixing deception
Yeah there forum is s joke my posts have disappeared without any explanation must of got there attention though l have moved to twitter now,there trying to get me to discuss it in a pm not a chance.

 

[rob420p]

I really thinking it's a hardware problem they don't want to admit to.why else would they not fix it.im thinking about starting twitter now lmao

 

[Neeosx]

I really thinking it's a hardware problem they don't want to admit to.why else would they not fix it.im thinking about starting twitter now lmao

but does this twrp decrypt custom oses? If it does it may not be the hardware issue

 

[a g bell]

I really thinking it's a hardware problem they don't want to admit to.why else would they not fix it.im thinking about starting twitter now lmao

There is that but they did a janky fix with Qualcomm for a11 so there must be a way.

 

[14christ]

i dont know but when using f2fs file formatting I can atleast see the /data partition in twrp just cant write to it.

 

[Lossyx]

but does this twrp decrypt custom oses? If it does it may not be the hardware issue

Because it's far, far more complicated than that. There's a lot of stuff implement specifically for OOS i.e widevine for example. Same thing with encryption. Of course there's a way to decrypting OOS but without the actual source of the recovery or OOS there isn't much we can do other than trial and error.

 

[thohac]

I really thinking it's a hardware problem they don't want to admit to.why else would they not fix it.im thinking about starting twitter now lmao

I don't believe so. Encryption is handled by the Qcom chip that's in many other devices. Some clueless developer must have configured some non-standard encryption and they are now stuck with it because they don't want to force a data-wipe when updating from A10 to 11.

 

[a g bell]

I don't believe so. Encryption is handled by the Qcom chip that's in many other devices. Some clueless developer must have configured some non-standard encryption and they are now stuck with it because they don't want to force a data-wipe when updating from A10 to 11.

If that's the case they need to give us the option l did a clean wipe anyway going from one android version to another.

 

[Lossyx]

If that's the case they need to give us the option l did a clean wipe anyway going from one android version to another.

They don't care.
It works for them so why would they need to do that?

 

[jioleight]

so TL;DR the fix they did for A11 will still not make TWRP fully functional and the issue for TWRP still persist?

 

[14christ]

so TL;DR the fix they did for A11 will still not make TWRP fully functional and the issue for TWRP still persist?

Yes. The only way to have a fully functional TWRP on this phone right now is to run a custom ROM.

 

[a g bell]

They don't care.
It works for them so why would they need to do that?

Because when l bought my 7t it didnt say decryption is broken on this device on the box. That should be as good enough reason as anyAs l bought thinking all is fine

 

[thohac]

I've been trying to disable dm-verity and make the system partition on A11 RW and in the process I've noticed something interesting.
The partitions on A11 are configured with an ext4 extended attribute for read-only filesystems called "shared_blocks"
tune2fs lists
Filesystem features: ext_attr dir_index filetype extent sparse_super large_file huge_file uninit_bg dir_nlink extra_isize shared_blocks

e2fsck -E unshare_blocks can make the filesystem RW however there is not enough free space to clone the blocks.
Could twrp on A11 be hanging because it doesn't know what to do with this attribute?

 

[Lossyx]

Because when l bought my 7t it didnt say decryption is broken on this device on the box. That should be as good enough reason as anyAs l bought thinking all is fine

It never said hardware backed safety net is broken either, but I doubt you wanna return your phone because of that. The phone works, along with the software.

 

[a g bell]

It never said hardware backed safety net is broken either, but I doubt you wanna return your phone because of that. The phone works, along with the software.

No but it would nice if my phone worked like the oneplus 7/pro the oneplus nord the OnePlus 8 etc. My phone is defective compared these devices and it needs fixing to at least work as other devices do.

 

[Lossyx]

I've been trying to disable dm-verity and make the system partition on A11 RW and in the process I've noticed something interesting.
The partitions on A11 are configured with an ext4 extended attribute for read-only filesystems called "shared_blocks"
tune2fs lists
Filesystem features: ext_attr dir_index filetype extent sparse_super large_file huge_file uninit_bg dir_nlink extra_isize shared_blocks

e2fsck -E unshare_blocks can make the filesystem RW however there is not enough free space to clone the blocks.
Could twrp on A11 be hanging because it doesn't know what to do with this attribute?

No. It probably just needs a newer kernel alongside updated blobs.
And as for the second thing, looks here

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1297836900560957441

, not sure if it's possible on stock. If you do it however it might be possible to use the unshare blocks command.

 

[Lossyx]

No but it would nice if my phone worked like the oneplus 7/pro the oneplus nord the OnePlus 8 etc. My phone is defective compared these devices and it needs fixing to at least work as other devices do.

It's defective....as in not being able to decrypt data using a third party recovery? ..

No point of me to continue this discussion, or whatever it was...

 

[a g bell]

It's defective....as in not able a third party recovery? Dude...

No point of me to continue this discussion, or whatever it was...

Indeed pointless but it's not the third party recovery issue that would be stupid , it's the fact that data decryption is broken on the op7t but isn't on other oneplus devices.